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Is it a common US given (first) name?

Source: R/dt-person.R
is_first_name.Rd

Is it a common US given (first) name?

Usage

is_first_name(x)

Arguments

x

A character vector.

Value

Logical vector; TRUE for a single token matching the internal SSA given-name list (.first_names), case- and punctuation-insensitive.

See also

Other person detectors: is_full_name(), is_last_name()

Examples

is_first_name(c("James", "OLIVIA", "Xqzzy", NA))
#> [1]  TRUE  TRUE FALSE    NA